A number of colleges and universities have stopped hosting identity-based, or affinity, graduation ceremonies, as the Trump administration’s federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ban trickles down to state level prohibitions.
According to The Washington Times, Maricopa Community Colleges and Harvard University are among the schools that have done away with affinity graduations for the class of 2025. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Ivy League institution announced that it would no longer offer the ceremonies last month, after the Education Department warned that violating President Donald Trump’s DEI ban risked grant funding.
“I think school-sponsored race-based graduations will fade as the legal and financial costs mount,” Cornell University law professor William A. Jacobson told the Times. “Separating students by race is the very definition of segregation.”
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